Bellocq's Ophelia

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Natasha Trethewey’s haunting collection of poems, Bellocq's Ophelia, comes to life on stage through image, movement, music, and the spoken word. Inspired by Ernest J. Bellocq’s arresting photographs of New Orleans’ red light district, circa 1910, Trethewey gives voice and dignity to the white-skinned African American women known as octoroons, who were objects of curiosity and desire.

Admission: $10 general, free to current Hollins students, faculty, and staff

Meet the author at a reception at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum on February 16, 2012, 6:45 - 7:45 pm, following a 6 pm lecture by nationally known artists Margaret Evangeline and Hunt Slonem, whose Louisiana-inspired exhibition, Bayous and Ghosts, will be on display. Both events help kick off the 2012 Roanoke Marginal Arts Festival.